#magpie chatters

[magp1e-starl1ght]

there are 3 types of shark

“Yea that’s a shark”, “what in the hell”, and “:3”

do you see the vision

[mischiefmagpie]

Persona 3 Reload is the biggest fucking letdown. I thought it was going to be including a fem MC like the portable version did, it doesn't.

You'd think that if they were able to fit all the extra changes and relationship mechanics and dialogue to the miniaturized and condensed version of the game, they would easily be able to add it to the remake. Especially given it's 2024 and it's about fucking time JRPGs let you actually play a fem MC.

No they keep using the same old fucking decades old excuse of "it's too hard to add to the game". I'm so fucking tired of that excuse. And it especially falls short when they literally had all the same fucking framework and they could have just...added it.

Like the game literally starts off by assigning a male MC to a GIRLS DORM. But you can't play a woman, or at the very least a female presenting person.

Why would they chose to do that? And then refuse to add the mechanics of playing as a girl, mechanics and script and voice acting they could've just remastered or copied directly.

No, they gave us representation with the barest bones version of the game and ripped it away for absolutely no reason when they had the chance to make a full game again.

And yes, I understand Persona 3 Portable was a remake of the original. But the point is not that they stay 100% faithful to the original. Why add that to a remake, see how beloved it was, and then remove it? Game devs continued to be terrified of tits and pussy and continue make the laziest excuses for not adding them to games.

[apebbleforyourthoughts]

urge to make yet another ponysona

[magpie-menagerie]

Yeah im reblogging sambucky to take my mind off of their divorce so what

[omagpies]

I love ur lil comics bc my simple mind can never actually understand what's going on

the beauty of absurdism. relax and enjoy :)

[miracleghast]

does somebody know what each streamer in pirates smp calls their chat cause for now I have

Seagulls: Acho's Chat, Tubbo's Chat

Sea Salt: Owen's Chat

Rats: Martyn's, Olives, and Eloise's Chat (her mods are cats which is cute!)

Magpies: Scott's Chat (Mods are Crows ?)

Parrots: Kyle's Chat

Ghost Parrots: Sausage's Chat

Adoring Fans: Krow's Chat

The Voices: Michela's Chat, Cleo's Chat

The Waves: Ros's Chat

Crabs: Oli's Chat

I can only watch so many perspectives, so please tell me about the ones I've missed or need to add, or if I've gotten any wrong!

I know this information is pretty trivial but I'd be fun to learn (especially after the war that happened after scott raided acho)

[three-magpies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Me @ me: the ai pizza recipe post isn't real and can't hurt you.

The post in question right behind me:

[image id: a cropped image of a pineapple pizza generated by ai, garnished by a poorly rendered sliced pineapple and an oddly shaped red fruit. The pizza itself is topped with thick, pasty looking cheese and pineapple chunks that look so smooth they could be mistaken for cubes of cheese. End id]

[slashmagpie]

I LOVE "CALL TO THE VOID" SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!

i could go on for AGES about how much i adore the characters and themes and worldbuilding and especially the twists- but for the sake of attempted brevity, i want to focus on my favorite cttv character: impulse of the sv

it's just. i get him, you know? he feels like he was abandoned by his closest friends, while he was still holding the corpse of his best friend. and mostly that was due to outside manipulation, but fuck, he must have felt so alone. ghost hunting isn't a hobby that opens up social circles; i think, for him, jits was one of the only people he could rely on, and in one day he watched them die and leave him. of course he turned to the only thing he thought could help. of course he spiralled, with nobody there to support him.

and he wants to live!! he wants both him and skizz to live!!! he doesn't want to die, he wasted so much life trying to keep them alive, and it doesnt make it right that he nearly killed tango and joker for that, but his desperation feels so real

and!! he was going to kill grian and scar at first!! and he DIDN'T!!! impulse isn't malicious, he's just lonely and desperate and he's kind at the heart of him, he was going to kill two strangers but he couldn't because he cared about them, and he was genuinely going to let him and skizz die with no sacrifice available. he only changed his mind when he met tango and joker again. gods, being alone for so long messed him up and he clearly blames them for it. again, there was outside influence involved, but as someone who has personally experienced what it feels like to be lost in a terrible situation and have others turn their back on you because of it- it's an ouroborous of all bad.

of course he wanted to trade their lives. of course he chose not to.

your impulse takes are always MWAH (see: lifeline au) and my gods this is no exception <3

Oh my gosh thank you!! I think I've mentioned before that this is a fic that I'm a little more insecure about, so it really means a lot to hear people say that they like it. I have more thoughts about your thoughts, but I will put them under a cut because this is already pretty long!

I think you've absolutely nailed what's going through ACttV!Impulse's head. The night Skizz died and JITS disbanded was massively traumatic for him (for all of them!) and set him on a spiral that ended up driving him further away from any potential avenue of support and further into things that were dangerous and arcane and damaging for him. Impulse in the 5 years between Skizz's death and resurrection was not a well man, and I think a lot of the things that happened in that time were also deeply traumatising in a way that he never fully processed or healed from. Which is part of why there's so much anger towards Joker and Tango--maybe if they'd have stayed, they could have resurrected Skizz together, and Impulse wouldn't have had to do all that alone, and maybe he wouldn't have gotten quite so hurt.

And I have very deliberately written the ghost hunting profession as a dead-end career that isolates the people within it due to its association with death and dark magic. I often think of it as being along the same lines as a garbageman or sanitation worker--a massively societally important job that is both deeply dangerous and looked down upon by most people. Unlike those types of roles, being a ghost hunter does have the chance to net you some good money if you get good at it--but to get good, you have to survive, not only the ghosts but living ostracised on the edge of society, and many people don't. Many people can't. All of our protagonists are a very specific type of person which precludes them from living a normal life and allows them to thrive in that niche of ghost hunter, and that type of person is not exactly the healthiest type of person.

ACttV is very much a story about death, and loss, and regret, and about trying to either outrun a past that is always going to catch up with you, or return to a past that can never exist again. It is also a story about people on the edges of society, who are eschewed by their peers, who live in desperation and danger, and all the ways in which that sort of existence is deeply damaging. Part of the reason GIGGS are so important to each other is because, despite their individual positions as outcasts, they're able to band together in their little found family and find joy in that existence with each other. When the team gets separated and starts to fall apart, so do they, and that's when we see them start to make the unwise decisions they make in the fic--like with Scar joining the Gatekeepers, or Impulse desperately deciding to take Joker and Tango's lives to save his own.

All of this to say: your analysis is exactly correct, and I'm so glad you were able to pick up what I was putting down and find it compelling! Idk if you are much of a music listener, anon, but if you are, perhaps consider checking out the official ACttV playlist--I think it does a pretty good job of musically representing a lot of the themes we're talking about here. (And, if nothing else, listen to How Dare You, which is a perfect summation of Impulse's hurt and anger towards J&T.)

And again, thank you so so much for the kind words, they really mean the world to me <3

[ballvillepanic]

i fucking love fishing

[pixelpuss]

Quick doodle of rachel before I go to bed! Honestly this outfit just waow

[magp1e-starl1ght]

I had a very weird dream this morning about a webcomic about an older goth guy and his 2 adoptive “ant girl” daughters.

The goth dude kinda looked like if you combined young Trent Reznor and young Peter Murphy. The ant girls were kinda like cat girls but with ants instead of cats, like they looked mostly human but with ant features. They were about the size of the average teenage human. I remember one of the ant girls was like a red ant with long red hair and whatnot, and the other was a black ant with shorter black hair. I think the red girl had some kind of backstory about how she was a parasitic ant larvae that was sent to infiltrate a different species ant colony (???) but failed and got abandoned and that’s how goth guy adopted her. Idk about the other girl’s backstory or the goth guy’s backstory or what any of their names were.

The comic was REALLY popular online, esp tumblr and Reddit for some reason. On Reddit the red girl was more popular but on tumblr people were REALLY obsessed with the goth guy, I think my subconscious invented a new tumblr sexyman.

[mischiefmagpie]

The shadow people in the house are working out. I'm completely alone today, and weights in the garage gym just crashed.

[apebbleforyourthoughts]

question for the pony-drawing folk: why is it so difficult to draw ponies looking good facing forward. there is just no real flattering way of doing it

[magpie-menagerie]

Thinking about the scene in catfa where Bucky says: "But you're keeping the outfit, right?" to Steve

Like. What was the heterosexual explanation for that.

[bonniepop]

seeing as kuroo seems to be my latest victim, please send me ideas

[three-magpies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Remember kids, you can't spell Christmas without hrt <3